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     Yellow_xb9s |
I found the rev limiter in fifth gear three times yesterday. Speed was 136mph indicated and the lil’ 9S was rock solid. The night before, I went over all suspension settings and dialed them in to what’s specified in the service manual. I noticed a bit of nervousness in the front fork with these settings so I backed the rebound damping off another quarter turn. The bike feels great now! Amazing what a quarter turn of a couple screws can do. | ||
| Yellow_xb9s |
No replies??? I'm hurt, gentlemen...  | ||
| Fbolt |
Wow! That's fabulous! | ||
| Glitch |
Your mum must be very proud. | ||
| Yellow_xb9s |
Glitch, I'm hopin' my mom never finds out!  | ||
| Darthane |
Sorry, after all the crap we've waded through concerning top speeds and what not we're getting a little jaded. I've hit mine, but only on the drag strip once or twice. ...no roads that it's 'safe' on around here (subjective anyways) and I'm unwilling to pay the potential ticket anyways. LOL | ||
| Mookie |
wear clean underwear | ||
| Darthane |
Mookie, where were ya on Wednesday? | ||
| Gearhead |
We went on a ride a few weeks ago with a guy who had GPS mounted on his bike. I was the leader so I kept the average speed around 65mph since we had several skill level riders with us. We all checked with him to see how accurate our speedos were and the XB12R at 65 mph was actually registering 62 mph GPS. 136? Maybe, maybe not... | ||
| Moboy516 |
I have mine indicate 139 going downhill a couple of times, but who knows what the real speed really is. | ||
| Dago |
well, i know it'll do at least an actual 105 mph. that is unless the cop was lying to me.  | ||
| R1DynaSquid |
I have only hit the rev limiter once on mine. 146 mph in 3rd gear. | ||
| Dago |
wow squid! tell us more about your fabulous r1. | ||
| R1DynaSquid |
Very poor trolling effort. Have a nice night. | ||
| Fullpower |
yellow sounds like fun. i am glad your 9 is running well. question for you: when you go up against the rev limit , does it stay steady, meaning will it maintain speed at that point, or does it slow you down some? mine cuts in around 6800, then it seems like it pulls me down a couple hundred rpm. not real positive whats up there, havent held it twisted for a real long time. | ||
| Glitch |
wow squid! tell us more about your fabulous r1.  Good one! | ||
| Moboy516 |
hard and soft rev limiter..... I wish someone could explain it to me. I have a 9 and sometimes top speed (ind.) says 138 and sometimes the top speed is 134 (ind.) | ||
| Mr_cuell |
I'm kinda with R1 here . . . the top speed is . . .yawn . . . not much to speak of. It's fun to max the performance of most any machine it seems, it's just relatively mundane on this bike in today's sportbike world. But on that note, 134 or whatever is probably a lot more fun for me on the XB than the R1 for that very reason, the R1 is just loping along, not even breaking a sweat, and the XB feels like it's really haulin ••• - | ||
| R1DynaSquid |
Cuell, on that note...try taking a HD cruiser bike up a decent speed. My dyna has seen around 110 & it feels like im going 200 mph. Vibrating to beat all hell, drag pipes screaming, whole bike shaking...definitely not something you want to do everyday. Whereas like you mentioned on the R1 130-140 feels like a sunday ride in the park. | ||
| Mr_cuell |
You and I think a lot alike on somethings I guess. (You sure like to jerk peoples' chains pretty good, but the content seems to be dead on) I have done that, both on my dad's FLHRI, and on an 883 I had. The experience of trying to follow a bandit 400 on the 883 is what got me into sport bikes. That Sportster was not cut for the job, the straight pipes literally vibrated right off the studs, the clutch handle vibrated off, and the battery ground vibrated off. I would run that thing hard everywhere I went trying to keep up, and it was not "fun" it was scary and frustrating. So a I got a GT650 Hawk, figured out it need more oomph, got a Superhawk when they were released, started racing LW twins and sold the Superhawk for the very reason we were just touching on. To get my ya ya's out on the superhawk on the street I had to do jail-time speeds. Even a superhawk, which is nowhere near the performance/handling of the liter bikes, was overengineered for me on the street. On a track, now thats totally different. The day I take my XB to the track to actually race other guys who aren't on XB's you should just shoot me. Or I'll crack on that other guys' wife and he can come shoot me. Anyway, the XB strikes the right street balance for me. Enough to stay respectable, but still squirrely enough to make it sweat when the pace picks up. | ||
| Blake |
"the R1 130-140 feels like a sunday ride in the park. Yep. Until the obstacle you didn't know was there pops up right in front of you. Then perceptions become all too real all too quickly. | ||
| Black_sunshine |
Yellow...Your speedo is going to give you anywhere from a 3% to 15% error. So speed indicated is just that. That goes for EVERY bike. Who's know how fast you are really going and who cares if your having fun doing (your speed here)mph. See Sport Rider's Sept 04' issue. Great piece called "Fast or Fiction". Gives you the technical low down. | ||
| Blake |
I think the Buell speedos are pretty accurate. Thoeretical top speed at redline is right around 135 mph. | ||
| Fullpower |
i can do no handed standing up figure eights in second gear at an idle on my XB12s, got three in a row last week. but i cant slow race the lightning yet, still practicing though. | ||
| Bradyclt |
Based on the loaded rolling circumference of the stock rear tire (at least with me on the bike... 135 lbs, not a lot of tire squat) and the primary/final/transmission ratios, the top speed of the XB9 is 134.5... which I've actually hit a few times on a new six-lane stretch of Interstate here. I put a dot of chalk in the center of the rear tire, rode it into my supposedly level garage, and measured the distance between the dots. Went through this exercise to verify what my GPS unit was telling me... that my speedo reads 3% fast. BTW, I'm thoroughly impressed by the stability of these short, squatty, crazy rake angle bikes at triple digit speeds. | ||
| Coldwthrrider |
I just got back from a 550 mile round trip from yesterday to today. I had soft saddle bags on and found some back roads where I could open the bike up. I hit indicated 110 many times (15?) and one time opened it up to an indicated 125. It was very stable, I was impressed with the stability. I was going for the rev limiter and then realized I had the bags on so it really didn't matter. I'm actually glad the top speed of the bike is ~135 because it doesn't tempt me to push the limits (like if it were 160-180) where things could get ugly in a hurry. It's cool and all, but the twisties I found were way more fun. My GPS mounts come next week so I may try it one more time, just for S&G's to see how high it gets. It's just good to know that it's stable at speed in case you decide to open it up. | ||
| Yellow_xb9s |
Fullpower, The speedometer was oscillating between 134 and 136... I didn't look back at the RPM indicator after the needle entered the yellow portion. All, I really don't know what the real speed was. I was more impressed with how the bike handled at speed after making the suspension adjustments. Before, she was gettin' really squirrely at speeds over 105mph indicated. I also had both the front and rear tires inflated to 45psi. I did that earlier just to see if she'd roll over in the twisties a little easier. She does. I like it, so I kept them inflated like that. | ||
| Darthane |
Ummm...no offense, but recommended PSIs are there for a reason, and you're quite a bit over them. Is that a hot or cold PSI? | ||
| Yellow_xb9s |
Hot... |
